Word: gall
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Gertrude Stein had leisure, intelligence, curiosity and quite a bit of gall. She never got tired of playing games with language. She preferred to live in Europe, but America and Americans always fascinated her. Four in America is an inquiry about the American soul as exemplified in four great men: Ulysses S. Grant, Wilbur Wright, Henry James and George Washington. A year ago last July, a few weeks before her death, Miss Stein sent the manuscript to Yale, which has now published it in its entirety for the first time...
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, and his wife Hazel, were both in a Grand Rapids hospital, he for a rest and checkup, she for a gall-bladder operation. The post-operative report: "satisfactory...
...been an acrimonious week. The last hope of cooperation between the Both Congress and the President seemed to have run out. Harry Truman had already vetoed five bills. Early in the week he had signed the rent-control bill (TIME, July 7), but with gall in the ink: "I have chosen the lesser of two evils . . . this legislation marks a backward step in our efforts to protect tenants against unjustified rent increases. ... It is unthinkable that the Congress would actually take steps to make more difficult or even impossible the efficient administration of the Government's present activities relating...
...Manhattan, Writer Ben Hecht, Palestine-terrorist-by-remote-control (TIME, June 16), was sitting up after a gall-bladder operation...
...Kaiser's proposal, New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges cried "unutterable gall." But Kaiser had a case of a sort. The Government, he pointed out, had sold the $200 million Geneva steel mill to U.S. Steel Corp. for 20.9? on the dollar-a loss of $162 million. (The other side of this argument was that Geneva had been auctioned off-and Big Steel got it because no one else wanted to pay the price it offered...